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nel. tanta una atented l' "its I MERRILL O. RICKARDS, O'F KANSAS CITY, MISSOURL'ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF 'IO GEORGE P. NORTON, OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI.

MOP.

Application filed October 11, 1924. Serial No. 743,046.

0 all ifi/2.0m t may concern.'

Be it known that l, MERRILL O. RroKARDs, a citizen of the United States, residing at Kansas City, in the county of Jackson and State of Missouri, have invented a new and useful Mop, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates generally to mops and particularly to mops which are used for sweeping and polishing hard wood floors and for sweeping and dusting walls.

The object of the invention is to provide an inexpensive mop having a head adapted for use in sweeping and polishing tioors and walls and the angles and obstructed portions thereof.

A further object of the invention is to provide a simple and inexpensive frame for demountable heads and a handle which may be rotated to use the mop proper endwise or sidewise.

- A further object of the invention is to provide the frame with locking means for holding the handle. in any selected position relative to the mop head.

I attain these objects by means of the mechanism and combination of parts illustrated in the accompanying drawing in whichMFigure 1, is a top plan view of a mop embodying my invention; Figure 2, is a top plan view of the frame for the mop head, the handle being omitted; Figure 3, is a plan view of the lower side of the frame, and showing the means for locking the handle with the frame; Figure 4;, is an elevation of the lower portion of the mop handle, and showing the yielding clamping means for engaging the frame; Figure 5, is a cross section through the mop head, on the line 5-5, in Figure 1, and Figure 6, is a top plan view of the bearing box connected with the frame, and showing the stud on the locking lever' projecting' through the bearing box.

. Similar numerals of reference refer to corresponding parts throughout the several views.

Referring to the drawings-the mop comprises a head 1, a handle 2, a swivel connection 3, which couples the handle with the head, a cover t, which is removably mounted on the head frame and provided on its lower side with a brush 5, made of suitable fibrous polishing material, such as cotton and the like, preferably cotton strings. The head of the mop has a cover supporting frame 6,

which is fashioned to conform to the sha-pe of the mop head desired, in this instance, an elongated diamond shaped head. rFransversely of the frame, and .intermediate of the ends thereof, is a metallic brace 7, the ends of which are connected to the inner sides of the frame G. On the upper side of the brace is a circular bearing box 8, and in the box is movably mounted a disk 9, which is centrally provided with a vertically extending eye 10. In the disk 9, are a plurality of holes 11 which are located at points cquidistant and at points at one fourth of the circumference of the disk, which holes are arranged to alternately regist/er with a hole 12, provided in the bottom of the bearing box. On the lower side of the brace 7, is yieldingly mounted a lever 13, and on the upper side of the lever is provided an upwardly extending stud 14, which is constantly positioned in the hole 12, and the stud has length adapted for its projection through the holes 11, whenever they do register with the hole 12, to thereby hold the disk 9 locked. Clips 15, are mounted on the upper side of the brace and are projected a little distance over the bearing box, to thereby hold the disk 9 in place. The handle 2, .is provided at its inner end with a fer-rule 16, having yielding legs 17, provided on their inner sides with globular bodies 18, which are adapted for entering opposite 'sides of the eye 10, to thereby clampingly and rotatably couple the handle with the mophead.

To assemble the mop-the disk 9, is placed in the bearing box 8, with the stud 14, on the member 13, extending through the hole 12 in the bearing box and one of the holes 11, in the disk and, thereafter, the clips 15, are mounted on the brace with the free ends thereof projecting over the disk, to thereby confine the disk in the bearing box in such a manner that the disk may be turned. The handle is then connected with the eye 10, on the disk, by springing apart the legs 17, sufficiently to receive there between the eye and allow the globular bodies on the legs to seat in opposite sides of the eye, the reaction of the yielding legs being sutlicient to allow the handle to be rotated. If it is desired to manipulate the mop for its use endwise or sidewise pressure by hand or foot is applied in downward direction to the member 13, which action eects withdrawal of the pin or stud 14, from engagement with the disk, when the handle may be turned to thereby rotate the disk to bring another of the holes 11 in the disk to register with the hole 12, in the bearing box, the hole 11 being the one selected to permit the handle to be turned to a position to use the mop endwise or sidewise. Then the down pressure on the lever 13, is released it reacts in upwardly direction and carries the stud 1-1, upward into the hole 11 registering with the hole 12, thereby locking the disk with the bearing box. When angles or corners of a room or wall are to be swept, or, contracted spaces between and under furniture and fixtures are to swept or polished, the handle is rotated in position to use the mop head endwise. l/Vhen the broad unobstructed floor is to be swept or polished, the handle is turned to a position where the mop may be used Sidewise or broadside, in a manner already described. a rotatable handle for the mop permits use of the latter endwise or broadside, by pulling and pushing the mop directly forward and backward, thus obviating the side morEhe provisio'ii oth tion in manipulating` the conventional mop.

Having described my invention what I claim isn a mop, an elongated diamond shaped wire frame, a transverse brace connected be tween the opposite angles ot the sides of the frame and having centrally of the frame a horizontal portion provided with a vertical annular flange and with a pin engaging hole in close relation to the ,inner side of said flange, a cover ot suitable fabric stretched upon said 'trame and provided on its lower side with a collection of strings or yarns to form thereof a polishing mop, a lever yieldingly mounted on said brace and provided with a pin norn'ially projected through the hole in the brace, a disl: rotatably mounted in the tiange of the horizontal portion of said brace and having four pin engaging holes located respectively on the circumference at points substantially ninety degrees "apart and adapted to engage the pin on said lever, and a handle rockingly mounted on said disk.

MERRILL O. RICKARDS. 

